I watched him very carefully at the time - mainly pick. What a player.

My BF pics from Salford Uni - 'Strange towns' tour. I saw him there on 'Touch sensitive' gig too. Great stuff, but no pics.

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Great Pics!!
I have to say that Bruce was my first ever "Bass Hero" - The Jam were THE band when I was younger. I used to try & pick out bits & pieces of his playing when I first started ("Start!" is one of my all time favourites along with "Scrape Away" - both on the "Sound Affects" album).

Although I know deep down that it'll probably never happen, I'd love to see Weller put the band back together for a few gigs.

To answer the question first set on this post, probably 99% of all the tracks on The Jam's albums are Bruce playing with pick - the only exception is "Precious" which sounds like fingerstyle (used a pick live). There's also a little bit of slap & pop on things like "Absolute Beginners", "Music for The Last Couple" ("Sound Affects") and "Precious".

Bruce certainly deserves more credit, but in the US at least The Jam aren't quite as known as other punk bands, not sure why. Quite a few missing out on a great band. Andy Rourke is fantastic as well, but everyone keeps getting caught up on Johnny Marr.

I did find a "Going Underground" tab but it seemed way off and these days it's probably gone.

good to hear some more fans. He's one of my favourite bassists, well him and simo, and he's partly the reason why i started playing bass 3 years ago. I love the sound, have to save up for my own rick tho!

nice site. The going underground bass tab was good.. Since i've been only playing for a couple months, I'm in dire need of practicing with standard notation, so that helped as there were no tab aid.. haha.

12stringbassist- what kind of bass is foxton using in that picture? was there a specific fender precision he used for The Jam?